Featured series 
Month: July 2020
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Nation & World
Waves of progress
A. R. Siders is a social scientist and a lawyer, advocating for audacious climate adaptation that’s fair for everyone.
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Nation & World
Risks and Rewards
Kenneth Tucceri has followed his passions and travelled the globe, all in pursuit of inspiring others and being a positive force in the world.
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Nation & World
Police reform in the spotlight
A panel of experts explores the history of policing in the U.S., and meaningful reform.
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Nation & World
Will coronavirus change college admissions?
Richard Weissbourd of the Graduate School of Education discusses what college admissions deans expect from applicants during the pandemic, and opportunities to reform the process.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences will bring up to 40% of undergraduates to campus this fall
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences decides it will bring up to 40 percent of undergraduates, including all first-year students, to campus for the fall semester.
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Nation & World
China’s tightening leash on Hong Kong
Harvard scholar discusses what China’s sweeping new security law will mean for the future of democratic rule in the semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong.
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Nation & World
Lessons from James Baldwin on betrayal and hope
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.
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Nation & World
The path to zero
Harvard Global Health Institute, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and more join to launch new COVID Risk Level map for policy makers and the public.
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Health
Sniffing out smell
Researchers describe for the first time how relationships between different odors are encoded in the olfactory cortex, the region of brain responsible for processing smell.
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Science & Tech
When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test
African grey parrot Griffin shows off his brain power, making students doubt their own.
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Nation & World
Hunger on the rise amid pandemic
Experts on food insecurity and diet gathered at an online forum on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hunger in America, and ways to make the post-pandemic food landscape better than that before COVID struck.
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Nation & World
Making the case for reproductive rights
Harvard Law Today spoke with Julie Rikelman, ’93, J.D. ’97, about her Supreme Court win and the case’s implications for reproductive rights.
